One year of Go

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Sat Nov 13 09:01:55 PST 2010


retard Wrote:

> Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:53:14 +0000, Russel Winder wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 15:07 -0500, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: [ . . . ]
> >> The lack of generics and dangerous concurrency are much bigger issues.
> >> If D can actually be shown to be a useful concurrent language, instead
> >> of the buggy and incomplete mess it is now, then it might have
> >> something to crow about.
> > 
> > What do you see as wrong with the Go model for concurrency?
> > 
> > I find the process/message-passing approach infinitely easier than
> > shared-memory multithreading with all its needs for locks, monitors,
> > semaphores or lock-free programming.  True operating systems will need
> > these latter techniques, but surely they are operating system level ones
> > and should never have to appear in application code?
> 
> There's also the software transactional memory technology.

... which is an interesting idea with some fundamental problems (possibly solvable).  There was a series of articles on this in ACM Communications about a year ago.  I'll have to dig up the articles for specifics though.


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